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Farmer Jim went from mucking out the coos to raking in the views!

As Perthshire comedian Jim Smith lands his own hour-long slot in 大象传媒 Scotland's Hogmanay schedule, we look back at what has been an amazing 24 months for the country's funniest farmer.

Jim Smith performs to his home crowd in new hour-long comedy special

If you've no heard of 'Fermer Jim' and his 'yows' yet then it's time you did.

Jim Smith, as he's tell you on his Twitter bio, is a Perthshire Beef and Sheep Farmer and Stand Up Comedian - not a combination you'll see everyday mind. He lives and works on his very real family farm in Caputh near Perth and when he's not lambing, feeding the coos or shoveling you know what, he's selling out comedy venues across Scotland.

He first got into comedy writing when he was a member of a Young Farmers club doing panto and found their bought-in script needed tweaking with local, more rural jokes.

He got the taste for comedy, began performing on the stand up circuit and made short videos for 大象传媒 Scotland's comedy strand Short Stuff. The character of Farmer Jim, largely a caricature of himself and other farmers he knows, would eventually become a TV series called The Farm, alongside Chris Forbes, who plays the rural cop in Scot Squad and achieved his own cult status as the .

His first 大象传媒 Scotland Facebook video from April 2018 - Short Stuff: Farm Diaries - has amassed 5.6 million views on Facebook and a lot of adoring comments from the ladies!

"Is he single?" one wrote. "I need to move to Scotland and marry a gorgeous sheep farmer like him!" said another.

Two of his subsequent social media videos have achieved and ! and this year he embarked on a 28-date sell-out tour called 'Back to the Teuchter.'

Jim puts his success down to the appeal of rural life stories. Now 40, he grew up on the farm he works on and says farming is his first love - he fits his comedy around the farming and not the other way around.

We hadn't heard the term until this week but it seems Jim Smith is already nailing the 'jigsaw career'.

You can catch Jim Smith Live from Perth on New Year's Eve at 10pm on 大象传媒 Scotland.

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